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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I hear the talking of the DJ. Can't understand just what does he say?"
"stick around 'cause we might miss you"
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A systematic review of research into the dark side of social media use has identified 46 harmful effects, ranging from physical and mental health problems to negative impacts on job and academic performance, as well as security and privacy issues. There's a non-dark side?
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I think Benjamin Franklin said there are only 3 things certain in life. Death, taxes and social media trolls...
Of course he also flew a kite with a metal object attached during a lightening storm so all sayings are suspect. I can only imagine the people that walked by telling him his new umbrella didn't work.
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We invite you to explore the latest capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 at our virtual launch event on November 8. Throughout the day, you can learn from some special guest speakers, talk back to the Visual Studio team, and even download exclusive digital swag. Just in time for your holiday compiling
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I am all hyped! 
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If your role is solely focussed on activities that low code software can perform you are at risk of being caught in a pinch point. Be lower than the code?
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Become a manager.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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A fate worse than low-code! 
TTFN - Kent
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Drinking cofee all day, shouting at devs? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If you want the Soapbox, you know where to find it...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Apologies. Still testing boundaries.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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When Copilot writes your code, will you care whether it’s good or bad? It can't be as bad as code randomly copied from the internet, can it? (Oh, wait.)
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Is it as good as the queries that MS Access generates?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Ouch, that's mean
TTFN - Kent
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In the article it reads:
And a third time: do we care? If we have a rigorous way to express what we want a program to do, we may never need to look at the underlying C or C++.
This is where I tend to land. Generated code must be robust, and the input specifications used to generate the code must be sufficiently expressive and complete, but it's not a requirement that the generated code be manually readable or maintainable, any more than assembly language need be these days.
The input specification is what must be readable and maintainable. This is no different than using any other compiler toolchain.
However, there's an argument to be made for certain types of generated code, like parsing code, where the code must be hand modifiable in some cases, for example, when doing natural language parsing.
Code synthesis/Program synthesis can make this easier, but it's very difficult to implement.
Real programmers use butterflies
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There are a lot of new features in the release, which only fully come together near the end. Can you smell what Redmond is cooking?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Can you smell what Redmond is cooking?
Every time the local farmer fertilises his fields I can. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: Dimon has been a vocal critic of Bitcoin, previously calling it a "fraud" and "fool's gold,"
In other words, they haven't yet found the means to consistently profit from it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I suspect his real reasoning falls more along the thoughts of some of the comments, although there is a grain of truth in your words. From the comments:
Bitcoin ... has no worth other than what people will attribute to it. Land can be lived on, Gold is a metal that can be forged, a loaf of bread can be eaten, a tarp can provide shelter, Bitcoin can be none of these things.
The US dollar is backed by one of the largest governments in the world. Bitcoin is not. Even the people who trade in it do so that they can convert it back to fiat later.
The US dollar is the currency that all other currencies are measured against, and it has value because it is backed by faith in the US Government, which is stable (enough, LOL) and will honor that value. Bitcoin is unstable because it is not backed by anything, and it is the most lost and stolen "currency" ever.
If Bitcoin is such a great thing on it's own, why does no one say "I have 0.17 bitcoin." What they do say is "I have $10,000 worth of bitcoin.
Which makes the real value of bitcoin entirely dependent on the US dollar, which renders it's uniqueness moot.
I've seen far too many threads on people trying to get rich through bitcoin to believe it is truly a 'currency.' It comes across as a giant ponzi scheme.
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Quote: has no worth other than what people will attribute to it
This is true of everything. Price is set where supply and demand balance, and the amounts supplied and demanded at a given price are determined by what the various sellers are asking and what the various buyers are bidding. Valuation is subjective, not intrinsic, but I'm not surprised that Dimon is ignorant of this fact.
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I doubt he is. See the 'tulip mania' link in my post below for his probable reasoning.
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Sure, maybe BTC will turn out to be another example of tulip mania. If anything, that possibility proves my point that valuations are subjective, not intrinsic. Stocks are another example. When enough people decide that valuations are frothy, a correction or crash occurs. Until then, buyers believe that they'll be able to unload to someone else (a greater fool), but the last buyers become bagholders.
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In the case of bitcoin, there aren't even any bulbs. It is pure speculation. Even stocks are against a business that produces goods of some kind. Bitcoin doesn't even have that.
It is your money. Spend it how you want.
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